"Chockful of sophisticated, ball-busting, and often comical hits that berated brothers," its 1999 or second album, "[[The Writing's on the Wall]]", "earned the group reputations for being everything from gold-digging male bashers—a charge the girls heatedly deny—to new-millennium feminists out to challenge the bitches-ain't-shit posturing that plagued much of late-'90s R&B and hip hop.